Drs. Wilcox and Whitham (1) trace the origin of the healing imagery of a snake on a staff to the Greek tradition of Asklepios. However, an earlier reference to Moses in the Hebrew Bible describes the healing power of this symbol centuries before the Greeks: “Hashem said to Moses, ‘Make yourself a burning one and place it on a pole, and it will be that anyone who has been bitten will look at it and live.’ Moses made a snake of copper and placed it on the pole; so it was that if the snake bit a man, he would stare at the copper snake and live” (2). In agreement with the authors' position, the Bible refers to only one snake. Clearly, the Hebrew Bible was well known to the Greeks, since it was translated into Greek from the Hebrew and is known as the Septuagint.